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To call Gaza a modern Auschwitz is not only historically incoherent, but devalues the unique horror of the Holocaust, where genocide was not a side effect, says the writer.
ICE is bad, but it is not the Gestapo or the SS, whose victims had minimal chances of survival. The immigrant detention ...
The latest winners of the News 5 Lighthouse Award have spent more than 20 years trying to teach our community about the ...
Liesbeth Heenk speaks at Rodeph Shalom on the importance of Holocaust memoirs amidst rising antisemitism globally.
Wars sometimes make illusions. In rumbles and pillages, once a bullet flies, there are no innocent parties. And that was the ...
While the Haganah itself operated before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the origins of the IDF can be traced back more ...
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Not every struggle requires a Nazi metaphor
“What I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights,” he ...
The "helpers" of Auschwitz worked in communications, as telephone, telegram, and radio operators. They would report back to superiors in Berlin with information about the camp's operations.
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Jewish Food Is Making a Comeback in Poland
Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S.
The U.S. War Department rejected proposals to attack trains to Auschwitz and the death camp itself as “impracticable,” claiming it would require “considerable diversion” of planes needed elsewhere.The ...
More than 1.1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz and the adjacent Birkenau death camp in gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labor in the meticulous Nazi effort to rid Europe of ...